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“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

Giving Spiritual Success Order Judging Giving Up Buddhist Judgement Being Successful Success And Failure Tibetan Success Failure Tibet Greatest Success Rules Of Life Success And Life

Author:Dalai Lama

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

Love Inspiration Risk Achievement Accounts Karma Buddhist Holiness Great Love Deep Love Tibetan Great Achievement Tibet Great Risk Goodness And Kindness Chance And Risk Great Accomplishment

Author:Dalai Lama

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Want Life Inspirational Sometimes Inspiration Remember Spiritual Wonderful Failure Lucky Luck What You Want Strokes Good Luck Wise Man Once Said Tibetan Getting What You Want Saying Good Luck

Author:Dalai Lama

“Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.”

“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

Way Wisdom Knowledge Learning Share Teaching Achieve Karma Buddhist Immortality Collaboration Social Change Tibetan Tibet Rules Of Life Sharing Knowledge

Author:Dalai Lama

“The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?”

Ifs Long Book Courses Next Journey Dying Acknowledge Preparing Ceremony Tibetan Graduation Ceremony

Book:This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

Source: This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.”

Knows Should Believe Different Feelings Home Fighting Belief Voice Identity Aspect Leaving Buddhist Contradictory Inner Life Tibetan Fragmented

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.”

Ifs Want Care Humanity Compassion Family Generations Future Family And Friends Future Generation Tibetan Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Tarthang Tulku

“In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.”

Mean Causes Power Virtue Awareness Fields Letting Go Clinging Tibetan Your Presence

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.”

Science Universe Nature Records Mystery Modern Pages Physics Experiments Mysterious Journal Tibetan Enquiry

Author:Fritjof Capra

“Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.”

“I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.”

“The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.”

“Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.”

Ifs Inspirational Said Real Turns Water Emotion Fire Negative Miracle Just One Impressed Ceilings Mystic Tibetan Negative Emotions

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.”

Thinking Littles Different Bits Learning Little Bit Actresses Different Things Southern Accents Tibetan Southern Accent

Author:Jaime King

“Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.”

Ifs Knows Believe Looks Persons Hard Grows Fields Position Humility Pride Cold Mountain Sitting Fertile Tibetan Mountain Top

Book:Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life

Source: Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life

“What you think you become.”

“Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.”

Giving Success Judging Giving Up Being Successful Life Lesson Success And Failure Tibetan Success Failure Tibet Greatest Success Rules Of Life Success And Life

Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world”

People World Should Dream Would Be Humanity Balance Pressure Contemplation Tension Refuge Harmonious Tibetan True Meaning Peace Within Humanity And Nature

Author:Dalai Lama

“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.”

Source: My Spiritual Journey

“I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.”

Years Real Use School Opportunity Heard Teaching Gaps Yearning Tibetan Monasteries Teaching English

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.”

Sometimes Seems Black Imagine Computer Standards Phones Riches Despite Corporations Sane Swear Tibetan

Author:Stephen Baxter

“You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.”

Feels Firsts Literature Boys Laughing Risk First Time Bravery Brave Starting Chinese Meat Meals Climbing Hiking Rotten Lanes Pubs Columbus Tibetan

Author:Ella Maillart

“It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Stills Important Use Faces Given Goal Loses Effort Brain Situation Achieve Possibility Determination Optimism Obstacles Nine Graduation Tibetan Achieving Your Goals

Author:Dalai Lama

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.”

Should Strength Source Tragedy Tibetan Source Of Strength Painful Experiences

Author:Dalai Lama

“People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Moving Suffering Causes Animal Diets Vegetarian Vegetables Vegetarianism Tibetan Vegan Diet Vegetarian Diet

Author:Dalai Lama

“I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.”

Thinking Way Trying Long Has Beens Sometimes Stories Lasts Levels Deeper Beaten Refugee Console Tibetan Irritation Personal Stories

Author:Dalai Lama

“Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.”

“If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!”

Ifs Real Loses Strength Tragedy Disaster Anticipation Tibetan Tibet Source Of Strength Painful Experiences Strength And Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from”

Source: Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

“We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond”

“There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.”

“Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.”

Source: Inner Revolution

“The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.”

“We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.”

“The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.”

“These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.”

“It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.”

“Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.”

“We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.”

“While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.”

“One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.”

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”

Source: Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus

“Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.”

Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

“As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.”

Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

“If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.”

Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

“According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face.”

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